Books for Youth: Helping Hoosier foster children

Last week our Cargo Services team joined Colts Center Ryan Kelly hosting about 40 foster children and their families for a Books for Youth event. Our company is the title sponsor of this statewide program that supports foster youth. This annual December distribution event, in partnership with the NFL Colts and the Indiana Department of Child Services, gives foster children a backpack filled with 25 age-appropriate books–something to call their own. “In Indiana, there are some 22,000 children in the foster system who have very little to call their own. Giving this gift during the holiday season is priceless,” says Steve Fugate, CFO Cargo Services.

Now in its eleventh year, Books for Youth provides Hoosier foster children backpacks filled with 25 age-appropriate books. To date, the Books for Youth team has collected more than 805,000 books for this program and distributed more than 8,250 backpacks to foster children in Indiana. We welcome your support for this program and our Hoosier foster children. Click now for details about these options:

Donate Books: Books can be donated at any Marion County Public Library or at a local Department of Child Services office.

Provide a backpack: Through the Buy One Give One program fans that purchase a backpack at any Colts Pro Shop and one will be donated to a foster child.

Make a donation: Monetary donations toward the purchase of backpacks can be made by texting BOOKS to 243725. Reply to confirm the donation. Keep in mind, message and data rates may apply.

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Our team operates within our “3C” philosophy: customer focused, creative solutions and community driven. Our customers make us successful allowing us to give back to our community supporting foster youth through Books for Youth.